 | Frederick Hinde - 1858 - 64 pages
...SOPHOCLES. And yet this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these, the grand old masters," the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," to what a towering eminence have they culminated HOMER, not only the Poet, who, transcendently " triumphant... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 528 pages
...shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from bis heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who through long... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Whose songs gushed from his heart, As show'rs from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eye-lids... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Bead from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | Edward Capern - English poetry - 1859 - 218 pages
...POEMS BY EDWAED CAPEBN, Jlural postman 0f fifoforir, gefam, AUTHOK OF "BALLADS AMD SONGS," " A humble Poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers...from the eyelids start. " Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in hU soul the music Of wonderful melodies. "Such songs... | |
 | Edward Capern - English poetry - 1859 - 212 pages
...fi POEMS BY EDWARD CA PERN, |ostman of giiwforb', gttrort, AUTHOH OP "BALLADS AND SONGS." " A humble Poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers...from the eyelids start. " Who through long days of labour, And nighta devoid of ease, Still heard in Ins soul the music Of wonderful melodies. "Such songs... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 pages
...surely that man was he ; a man as original in his subjects as in his manner of handling them; a man — "Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers from...from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies." A man... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...original in his subjects as in his manner of handling them; a man — " Whose songs gushed from hie heart As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; TVbo, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of... | |
 | William Wilson - Fathers of the church - 1859 - 346 pages
...wonderful melodies ;" at least he wrote sacred hymns which have all the appearance of having — " Gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears to the eyelids stait." Augustine, in his "Confessions," gives us asnatch of one of them. Overcome with... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...to him, in delicious numbers, all the loftiest conceptions of genius, from " The grand old masters, The bards sublime ; Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time." Not only as conservators of the past, are books to be prized; they are also an ever-enduring source... | |
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Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. 
